"There are, you know, only two classes of people in the world as regards love. Some just want love, and they sit and wait for it. It must come to them. They are the unhappy people. The others do not want to be loved, they want to love, to give themselves to others. This is happiness. And now only when we learn to console others, to almost forget ourselves, then only do we become Christ-like."

~ Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

I can hear his famous voice saying these words... even with the pauses which were his trademark. Don't you just love listening to Fulton Sheen? Thanks to technology, we can hear him on DVD, CD, and even on our smart phones now.

When we study the lives of the saints, we see that each and every one of them wanted to love, wanted to give love, and wanted to give themselves.

Name one.

St. Margaret Mary

St. Francis of Assisi

St. Therese of Lisieux

St. Mary Magdalen

St. Augustine

St. Joseph

St. Francis de Sales

St. Peter the Apostle

Every saint we can think of was burning with love for God and through God, for their fellow man.

Which kind of person do we want to be? 

(This photo was taken in St. Thomas Becket Church in Veneta, Oregon)